htaccess ReWrite Problems

[fireineyes]

I am editing my htaccess file and I want to rewrite several variations of a html url name to read a database. It works except this for this point. If I have just one reWrite rule it does fine, but when I use multiple ones it does some crazy things (like add - in between words in variables)

What I am trying to do is this...
When someone click's on a link like... http://www.mysite.com/articles-Mortgage-Loan.html or http://www.mysite.com/articles-Mortgage-Loan-Company.html
or whatever... I want to query the database with php using the phrase entered after articles. I did up to 9 keywords in a phrase just to cover my bases.

Here is what I did...

RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2+$3+$4
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^articles-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html$ search2.php?kw1=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9 

Any Idea What to DO? What did I do wrong?

[keith73]

this isn't a database issue, it should go under linux/unix help.

but here's some suggestions.

have you read the docs on apache.org?
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
what version of apache are you using?

I don't think you need to keep writing rewriteengine on
you have no rewritecond's in your file

look at the rewrite guide and see if that helps.

• keith